The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has authenticated the Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) result of the Minister of the Interior, ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Saturday, November 29, 2025, released the provisional results for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

The Nobel prize season is in full swing, with the physics prize to be awarded Tuesday. The prizes are named after Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...

The new figure represents a significant improvement from the initial pass rate, which showed that 38.32% of the candidates met the benchmark for admission into tertiary institutions. The West African ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced a sharp decline in student performance in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), with only 38.32 per cent of ...

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann. One of the biggest ...

First proposed in 2012, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT) is a devilishly difficult math theory that experts describe as an “alien language.” Although only a few mathematicians around the ...

Terrence Howard, who previously said he had "proof" that "one times one equals two," doesn't want to see people mocking him for his language of logic, which he has previously referred to as ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Sunday released the results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for Private Candidates, 2024 Second Series. The ...